The Arabian horses were provided by the Kellogg ranch which was a breeder it the horses and the ranch became Cal poly Pomona campus,still breeds the horses today.it is a agriculture college.
Always So Lovely. Rudy was born with such style, natural charm, grace, kindness, generosity of spirit, humour and absolute talent and ability. No wonder He is still adored a hundred years after these images. He truly deserves his place in cinema history. RIP Rudy, Gone too soon but Never Forgotten ❤❤❤
What a gem, thanks for upload it: I knew that it was a photograph of this charming Agnes Ayres, bite attempt! But not this short cut, precious moment... Lovely Valentino.
Thanks. ;) I don't know why i make these videos really, but I just enjoy watching Rudy. He gives me romance in my life even though it's not real. I can fantasize. I don't know Rudy, but i find something irresistable about him right now.
It crazy but he draws you in to a place .He makes you feel connected to him. He is so dreamy. He does give you romance when your life has none .He's a perfect man ,beautiful graceful ,perfect build ,beautiful face,masculine. There is an actor from England. Jeremy Brett.He is Sherlock Holmes. I think we all love their sense of style ,fashion and flair. We are all obsessed. HIS MOVIES ARE SO GOOD.
Filming location "North Santa Barbara County" earned its name "Hollywood by the Sea" due to the films "The Sheik" and it's sequel. Currently "Ventura County"
As long as we're talking California- Director Erich von Stroheim chose to film his mammoth epic Greed in sequence and on location- which includes Death Valley- in the Summer! Whatever complaints from cast and crew, von Stroheim eventually had to turn back- it seems the cameras melted...
Still gorgeous across the years. Many of us women love his suavity, style, fashion sense, physical grace, ability to display emotions from A to Z and in instantaneous changes from delight to despair. He was essentially still a boy, spent more than he earned, needed someone to take honest care of his finances and fight for his right to have some say in choosing vehicles and directors. He probably would have become a director since he loved cameras and photography and had many expensive still cameras and movie cameras. Except for The Sheik in which the director forced him to mug endlessly, his acting is very honest. Too bad he died so young, though tastes did change -- the era of the swashbuckler was coming in; BUT he was a good athlete, dancer, and excellent horseman and delighted in wearing cowboy clothes when riding his Arabians in Palm Springs. So he might have been a good film cowboy! He also had a flair for comedy so I think of him as another Cary Grant less than two decades prior to Cary's appearance on film. Many of Rudy's films are on youtube, among them Cobra, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Moran of the Lady Letty, The Sheik, Son of the Sheik where he plays two roles, the original sheik though older with "old" guy makeup, and the sheik's son (filmed together as they did with Hayley Mills in Parent Trap), Monsieur Beaucaire (fancy dress and his comic bits), and more. The Rajah is told in word cards, stills, and a few moving scenes -- that is all that remains of that film. Others are totally lost. He began playing heavies (what foreigners were relegated to playing) but with his breakout role in Four Horseme thanks to screenwriter June Mathis advocating for him,, he had leading star billing from then on -- a few short years on top prior to his death from a perforated ulcer (no antibiotics then available so his body couldn't fight off the infection that ensued). Google to find thousands of images of him, and there are also some Valentino blogs online. Best bio of him is Dark Lover by Emily Leider, available on amazon. Best bio in photos is a book by Donna Hill: Rudolph Valentino, Silent Idol. Get the expanded edition. It takes his life in sections. Each section has 2-3 pages of summary followed by many, many photos. See my artisan-made OOAK Valentino brooches at www.sweetchildjewelry.etsy.com -- get them while they last.
Que escenas tan antiguas y hermosas del naciente cine, por esos tiempos sin sonido. Como hoy decimos MUDO O SILENTE. Gracias por.compartir con nosotros los actuales. A través de este medio actual you tube.
I just bought a postcard of Rudolph sitting ON the camel...the camel standing! On the back is a message about shampoo because it was given out as a "reward" if someone bought the shampoo! It's an original card, so it's nearly 100 years old! (minute 2:58 of the video shows RV with the camel but not the shot on the card I have.)
@@karenhill3970 OH, I have a paycheck from Lasky to Agnes Ayers, too, but it was from 1922....Can't quite be sure if she was filming something then, seemed maybe paid just after finishing one film....but she had a contract so maybe it was just a regular salary (?).
bless this documentaries heart. it wasnt the directors work that made the sheik a success- valentino was the REASON for the sheiks success. no one like valentino before or since. the camera worshipped him above all others
Filmed in the summer of 1921. Feb 2021 as I write this, so it is nearly 100 years ago...unbelievable. Rambova said it was trash, but, oh, it was wonderful "trash" and would catapult his career...
@@80stimeagain And the irony is, we come to find out that she may have been a dancing "extra" in this "trash"...LOL....maybe she needed the few bucks they paid or was keeping an eye on her prized catch....
Valentino! Sigh. I discovered him as a teenager in The Sheik. Film critic Leonard Maltin said he could understand why this movie had women fainting in the aisles. When.I saw the flick a second time with my Dad, he said "That guy is looking at her as if she were a piece of 🍰 pastry!"
I don't think people had ever seen sex portrayed on the big screen like that before. It was very suggestive and alluring. Valentino captured people's imagination. :)
@@80stimeagain I will agree with you that the movie was alluring, and used the concept "suggestive" to the stratosphere- which begs the question. In modern movies where love scenes are all out there, why is that not nearly as sexy as say, The Sheik. Today it's no holds barred, yet that 1921 movie had no nudity, no obscene language, nothing to justify the statement made long ago " I can't define obscenity with words, but I know it when I see it." So why were women fainting in the aisles? When God made Valentino, He broke the mold. It wasn't raw sex, it was passion, mystery, a hypnotic quality- and dare I say it? Halfway through the movie, you.believed he really loved her.
@@colleencupido5125 Yes. The human imagination is a powerful thing. When you dont see nudity, but you see it in your mind, it's like the whole movie holds you in anticipation for that nudity. However, it only teases you with the idea which just heightens the excitement and intensity. Yes, it is also an unconventional captivating love story. 🤗
I'm not sure if Natacha did cheat on Rudy, but who knows the personal life of others. However, they simply were not compatible. It was bound not to work out.
We now now she did...and we know he did step out her...for sure spending some time with one of those 88 Beauties in Toronto....who won THAT city contest...There are several quotations from her about the issue...
I saw something this week.They worked together because she was a costume designer and excellent at it.But she was very difficult to work with.She was kicked out.and told never to come on set.Rudy got offer alot more money to stay.He chose his career over him marriage and partnership. It must of been hard to do for Rudy. He seems very tender hearted. He had a bad ulcer and it killed him. They had not broken up for that long. She never went to his funeral. That is mean.he had a sense of style anyway but I think she upped it a notch.
The director made Rudy overact in some scenes. That is not Rudy's fault, but the director. Also, i don't know how well they got along. But, despite Rudy's overacting, the Sheik is what made Rudy a star.
There are a few scenes that are overdone, and it was the director telling Rudy exactly how to act out a scene. Rudy did not like this. He knew it was unnatural looking. So, Rudy made a point to correct these acting mistakes in The Son of the Sheik. The acting in Rudy's other movies are much more subtle and even underacted with much restraint. His last 3 films especially.
I know this is a late reply, but he was right. The first "Sheik" was a BIT over expressioned. It was silent film, but come on guys, we can SEE expressions. Rudy was spot on!! Bravo for him. God! A man after my heart. Can't wait to see him when he is resurrected on earth. Yes. You heard it right.
@@zimjun7 In his time, women were nuts about him, men less so-- which is unfair. It would take a "man's man" Clark Gable to make women faint in the aisles during The kiss scene in Gone With the Wind, while most men either admired Gable or wanted to Be him. In my opinion, it had nothing to do with Valentino's supposed "lack of masculinity." I think men of Valentino's era were jealous out of their minds, so they called him names. When I got married many years ago, I decided the first Valentino movie I would show John was The Eagle, a Russian-type Robin Hood that has one of Rudy's Best Performances. At the end, John said, first, he had heard of Valentino, but never realized how good-looking he was. Second, John said Valentino reminded him of Errol Flynn! The idol of many guys who like Golden Age Hollywood! Valentino is alive and well in the 21st Century, thanks to cinema, while many male matinee idols have disappeared from popular memory.
@@colleencupido5125 Rudy was back on track after ditching the effete, "dandy" roles that he did under the coaching of Rambova...the supposedly "artistic" things which basically bombed. The Eagle, while not as big at the box office as his earlier smashes (The Sheik and 4 Horsemen), did well and re-launched him. The SOTS he didn't want to do but he need the money and needed a big hit...his planned next film would have been another "swashbuckler," a cleaned up story about Cellini. Then, after he died, it was resurrected with Frederic March and it was sort of OK but you could see Rudy in a film like that with a lot more spirit in the role. However, the silent swashbucklers were fading and Fairbanks retired after his last silent, The Iron Mask. However, in the early 50's his son NARRATED the story as well as reading the inter titles with a great score and it was fantastic! I wish we could see some of RV's films narrated with music like that was done!
@@secretariatgirl4249 Your quote "the supposedly 'artistic' things which basically bombed." I wish you had put "supposedly" in capital letters. That great Art can be downright Macho seems to be a well-hidden secret. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were written 3,000 years ago. These Ancient Greek epic poems are only for forced reading in college, to some. However, Homer is one of my favorite writers- the closest to Shakespeare in Nailing down human nature. When sharing the Iliad (BOOK) translated by Fagles, all that extreme explicitness of how men died in battle before the walls of Troy- it was almost too much for him( while he Loves The Terminator, Brave heart, etc.). He told me three-fourths of the way through, "If I can get through this, I can get through anything."
Men were threatened, especially the older ones set in their ways. Younger men would emulate the style. However, there was an anti-foreigner element for sure...racism abounded, just like today. They actually did HANG Italians...that was just a few years before in the early 1900's. Any immigrants who were from the southern parts of Europe, dark, were considered Negro. I'm not kidding. I remember when I was growing up the term "wop" was used all the time...and I know that it was applied to Rudy at the time! My mother, who trained as an opera singer and did recitals was turned away by a club in my hometown...it was a WASP town, founded by the Dutch...and this was the 1940's!!
If i had thought Rudy had found true love in this life, i don't think i would be as obsessed with him. I might like him, but in a more detached way. But, since i feel Rudy didn't find or choose the right women, it has made me more interested in him.
I think Melford was responsible for the overacting by both Ayers and Valentino. Rudy seems to have caught on halfway through the movie and cut it out. Further, he never did it in any other film, not even "Four Horsemen..." which was before "The Sheik".
Excellent, "making of" pieces are such assets that offer us a glimpse into the artwork of film making. I love your music selections...what is the piece at :48? I know it as the Nureyev solo from Swan Lake, only it was played slower for the ballet.
I don't know much about Agnes, and i'm not sure i would want to see them together since i am so obsessed with Rudy now. lol. But, I'm not a fan of Natacha. I am jealous of her because i know Rudy had feelings for her. But, Natacha seemed to want complete freedom and control which is not suited to family life which is what Rudy wanted. Maybe they would make good friends, but not lovers.
Rex Ingram was married to Alice Terry at the time. But, Terry and Rudy had already known each other before. Rudy didn't like Rex's direction, and they would argue. Rudy wanted better scenes. Rudy acted with Terry in Four Horsemen and Conquering Power.
I assumed with Valentino's overacting in The Sheik it was either the fault of the director or Rudy found the source material silly and just decided to have fun with it.
@RomanticMaiden Haha!!! It's nice to know that you feel i am a threat to you. I am very flattered. :)) You can have Rudy, but I challenge you to a duel anyway. Wait, it's no challenge my friend because you already lost!!! ;)) Pleasant dreams.
@RomanticMaiden Are you still here? Do i still bug you and make you angry? I wonder why. Lol. ;)) You are very competitive with me even after i let you have Rudy!!! Well, what can i say. byeeeee ;))) Take care sweetie. ;)
The Arabian horses were provided by the Kellogg ranch which was a breeder it the horses and the ranch became Cal poly Pomona campus,still breeds the horses today.it is a agriculture college.
Interesting background information! Thank You. :)
@claudettesnyder8356 Wow! And Rodolfo attended an Agricultural College. I think that would be a very interesting major to take on.
I’ve never found a more interesting actor than Rudolph Valentino. The more I read about him, the more fascinating he gets!
Thinking the same
Always So Lovely. Rudy was born with such style, natural charm, grace, kindness, generosity of spirit, humour and absolute talent and ability. No wonder He is still adored a hundred years after these images. He truly deserves his place in cinema history. RIP Rudy, Gone too soon but Never Forgotten ❤❤❤
I am in awe. Complete and utter awe.
1:00 Rudy helping Agnes with her rouge 😍 It’s just so cute! His big dimpley smile ahh~! Makes my heart flutter 💓
Even behind the scenes were shot to be so adorable back then. “Sorry to interrupt...” and they flutter off. How darling ☺️
I thought the same. :)
THAT'S OUR RUDY!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤!
What a gem, thanks for upload it: I knew that it was a photograph of this charming Agnes Ayres, bite attempt! But not this short cut, precious moment... Lovely Valentino.
Che belli questi documenti, sono la testimonianza di un passato che continua a vivere😍
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT RUDOLFOVALENTINO!❤
Che fascino...ancora sogniamo...divino
Interesting behind the scenes of The Shiek.
Beautiful Rudy Valentino.
🌹🌹🌹
Everything Rudy Valentino did is now legendary gold...
RUDY VALENTINO 💘 😒 🙄 😏 🤣 😉 DEFINITELY HAS THOSE SEXY KISSABLEHOT🔥 LIPS 💋 😋 😍 😜 👌 😳
This was great, tons of images I haven't seen before. Thank you.
Nona, Thank you for watching! Glad you liked it. :) Take care. ~deb
Thanks. ;) I don't know why i make these videos really, but I just enjoy watching Rudy. He gives me romance in my life even though it's not real. I can fantasize. I don't know Rudy, but i find something irresistable about him right now.
Crazy isn’t it?. How a man before your time
can move your heart.
Perfectly well said, same here.
@@titanictinker2832 YES
RUDY VALENTINO 💘 IS A REAL HUNK 😳 👌 💯%!❤ 👏 😤 🙌
It crazy but he draws you in to a place .He makes you feel connected to him. He is so dreamy. He does give you romance when your life has none .He's a perfect man ,beautiful graceful ,perfect build ,beautiful face,masculine. There is an actor from England. Jeremy Brett.He is Sherlock Holmes. I think we all love their sense of style ,fashion and flair. We are all obsessed. HIS MOVIES ARE SO GOOD.
Almost 100 years ago! I just had a Valentino marathon
True we're so lucky to have so much to look at it.
First time watching this with footage I hadn't seen, thankyou.
Excellent! Thank you so much. 🌈❤️🌞
He looks like he was a lot of fun to be around, very personable. :-)
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT RUDY VALENTINO IS A REAL DREAMBOAT 😳 👏 👌 🙌 💯%!❤ 😤
Thank you for these images. I found them so moving...
You're welcome 😊
Definitely agree about his last few films. The Eagle and The Son of the Sheik are his best work.
I also loved Cobra as well
The quality of this video is pretty good since it's over 100 years ago
Este Valentino , no sólo tenía "facha " era HERMOSO
Those horses are beautiful also..
i love a man that died long before i was thought of.best looking man ever.
Yes, Rudy didn't like rushing through scenes. He liked taking his time, and doing a scene in a way he felt would work well. So, you are right. :)
When Valentino enters the tent, he makes a classical Italian gesture which means "Ma perché?....." 🤣
I know. I think there's something extra romantic about some of the old films.
Filming location "North Santa Barbara County" earned its name "Hollywood by the Sea" due to the films "The Sheik" and it's sequel. Currently "Ventura County"
As long as we're talking California- Director Erich von Stroheim chose to film his mammoth epic Greed in sequence and on location- which includes Death Valley- in the Summer! Whatever complaints from cast and crew, von Stroheim eventually had to turn back- it seems the cameras melted...
Wow! Thanx so much Debbie. That was a great treat!!! Loved it . :-))
Amazing footage here! Thanks for posting it.
I think that you put the perfect music to it! Thanks.
Thank you for posting the videos❤️😊👍
You're welcome, and Thank You for watching. :) Take care
Oh what a wonderful video! I never have seen this!!!! LOL
Thank you very much for sharing, dear Debbie*****
Hugs
Eva :)
Thanks For Sharing These Videos 📹 🙌 ❤ 🙏 💕 😊 AND INFOS With Us About RudolfoValentino!❤
He is so Wonderful....
I think so too. ;) Thanks for watching. Take care. :)
Fuck you bitch
Still gorgeous across the years. Many of us women love his suavity, style, fashion sense, physical grace, ability to display emotions from A to Z and in instantaneous changes from delight to despair. He was essentially still a boy, spent more than he earned, needed someone to take honest care of his finances and fight for his right to have some say in choosing vehicles and directors. He probably would have become a director since he loved cameras and photography and had many expensive still cameras and movie cameras. Except for The Sheik in which the director forced him to mug endlessly, his acting is very honest. Too bad he died so young, though tastes did change -- the era of the swashbuckler was coming in; BUT he was a good athlete, dancer, and excellent horseman and delighted in wearing cowboy clothes when riding his Arabians in Palm Springs. So he might have been a good film cowboy! He also had a flair for comedy so I think of him as another Cary Grant less than two decades prior to Cary's appearance on film. Many of Rudy's films are on youtube, among them Cobra, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Moran of the Lady Letty, The Sheik, Son of the Sheik where he plays two roles, the original sheik though older with "old" guy makeup, and the sheik's son (filmed together as they did with Hayley Mills in Parent Trap), Monsieur Beaucaire (fancy dress and his comic bits), and more. The Rajah is told in word cards, stills, and a few moving scenes -- that is all that remains of that film. Others are totally lost. He began playing heavies (what foreigners were relegated to playing) but with his breakout role in Four Horseme thanks to screenwriter June Mathis advocating for him,, he had leading star billing from then on -- a few short years on top prior to his death from a perforated ulcer (no antibiotics then available so his body couldn't fight off the infection that ensued). Google to find thousands of images of him, and there are also some Valentino blogs online. Best bio of him is Dark Lover by Emily Leider, available on amazon. Best bio in photos is a book by Donna Hill: Rudolph Valentino, Silent Idol. Get the expanded edition. It takes his life in sections. Each section has 2-3 pages of summary followed by many, many photos. See my artisan-made OOAK Valentino brooches at www.sweetchildjewelry.etsy.com -- get them while they last.
Que escenas tan antiguas y hermosas del naciente cine, por esos tiempos sin sonido. Como hoy decimos MUDO O SILENTE.
Gracias por.compartir con nosotros los actuales. A través de este medio actual you tube.
I just bought a postcard of Rudolph sitting ON the camel...the camel standing! On the back is a message about shampoo because it was given out as a "reward" if someone bought the shampoo! It's an original card, so it's nearly 100 years old! (minute 2:58 of the video shows RV with the camel but not the shot on the card I have.)
Soo neat...Sec Girl so cool u have items of RUDY's like that CHECK He actually wrote....im so sad ..thinking about him.....😪
@@karenhill3970 Me, too..
@@karenhill3970 OH, I have a paycheck from Lasky to Agnes Ayers, too, but it was from 1922....Can't quite be sure if she was filming something then, seemed maybe paid just after finishing one film....but she had a contract so maybe it was just a regular salary (?).
@Lovingsundays Lol, i know i get obsessed at times too. It's not helping me, but it's fun to fantasize about Rudy. ;)
Gorgeous 😍🎉🇧🇷
RUDY VALENTINO IS SO GORGEOUS 🌹 😍 ❤ 💙 ♥ 💖!!
Thats it I'm going back in time and becoming an actress 😫
You and me both! : )
bless this documentaries heart. it wasnt the directors work that made the sheik a success- valentino was the REASON for the sheiks success. no one like valentino before or since. the camera worshipped him above all others
Filmed in the summer of 1921. Feb 2021 as I write this, so it is nearly 100 years ago...unbelievable. Rambova said it was trash, but, oh, it was wonderful "trash" and would catapult his career...
Yes. : )
She said His movie The Sheik" trash?....well a million women didnt think so.......& they STILL DON'T
@@80stimeagain And the irony is, we come to find out that she may have been a dancing "extra" in this "trash"...LOL....maybe she needed the few bucks they paid or was keeping an eye on her prized catch....
Valentino! Sigh. I discovered him as a teenager in The Sheik. Film critic Leonard Maltin said he could understand why this movie had women fainting in the aisles. When.I saw the flick a second time with my Dad, he said "That guy is looking at her as if she were a piece of 🍰 pastry!"
I don't think people had ever seen sex portrayed on the big screen like that before. It was very suggestive and alluring. Valentino captured people's imagination. :)
@@80stimeagain I will agree with you that the movie was alluring, and used the concept "suggestive" to the stratosphere- which begs the question. In modern movies where love scenes are all out there, why is that not nearly as sexy as say, The Sheik. Today it's no holds barred, yet that 1921 movie had no nudity, no obscene language, nothing to justify the statement made long ago " I can't define obscenity with words, but I know it when I see it." So why were women fainting in the aisles? When God made Valentino, He broke the mold. It wasn't raw sex, it was passion, mystery, a hypnotic quality- and dare I say it? Halfway through the movie, you.believed he really loved her.
@@colleencupido5125 Yes. The human imagination is a powerful thing. When you dont see nudity, but you see it in your mind, it's like the whole movie holds you in anticipation for that nudity. However, it only teases you with the idea which just heightens the excitement and intensity. Yes, it is also an unconventional captivating love story. 🤗
I'm not sure if Natacha did cheat on Rudy, but who knows the personal life of others. However, they simply were not compatible. It was bound not to work out.
We now now she did...and we know he did step out her...for sure spending some time with one of those 88 Beauties in Toronto....who won THAT city contest...There are several quotations from her about the issue...
I saw something this week.They worked together because she was a costume designer and excellent at it.But she was very difficult to work with.She was kicked out.and told never to come on set.Rudy got offer alot more money to stay.He chose his career over him marriage and partnership. It must of been hard to do for Rudy. He seems very tender hearted. He had a bad ulcer and it killed him. They had not broken up for that long. She never went to his funeral. That is mean.he had a sense of style anyway but I think she upped it a notch.
Glad u like it. ;)
Great video Debbie!!
Thanks for posting!! :-))
Thanks. I'm still trying to figure Rudy out, but i would have to meet him to even begin to start to know him. ;)
Thank you. :)
RUDY VALENTINO 💘 LOOKS GREAT AS THE SHEIK!❤
The director made Rudy overact in some scenes. That is not Rudy's fault, but the director. Also, i don't know how well they got along. But, despite Rudy's overacting, the Sheik is what made Rudy a star.
My love for him is endless
There are a few scenes that are overdone, and it was the director telling Rudy exactly how to act out a scene. Rudy did not like this. He knew it was unnatural looking. So, Rudy made a point to correct these acting mistakes in The Son of the Sheik. The acting in Rudy's other movies are much more subtle and even underacted with much restraint. His last 3 films especially.
I know this is a late reply, but he was right. The first "Sheik" was a BIT over expressioned. It was silent film, but come on guys, we can SEE expressions.
Rudy was spot on!! Bravo for him. God! A man after my heart. Can't wait to see him when he is resurrected on earth. Yes. You heard it right.
@@zimjun7 In his time, women were nuts about him, men less so-- which is unfair. It would take a "man's man" Clark Gable to make women faint in the aisles during The kiss scene in Gone With the Wind, while most men either admired Gable or wanted to Be him. In my opinion, it had nothing to do with Valentino's supposed "lack of masculinity." I think men of Valentino's era were jealous out of their minds, so they called him names. When I got married many years ago, I decided the first Valentino movie I would show John was The Eagle, a Russian-type Robin Hood that has one of Rudy's Best Performances. At the end, John said, first, he had heard of Valentino, but never realized how good-looking he was. Second, John said Valentino reminded him of Errol Flynn! The idol of many guys who like Golden Age Hollywood! Valentino is alive and well in the 21st Century, thanks to cinema, while many male matinee idols have disappeared from popular memory.
@@colleencupido5125 Rudy was back on track after ditching the effete, "dandy" roles that he did under the coaching of Rambova...the supposedly "artistic" things which basically bombed. The Eagle, while not as big at the box office as his earlier smashes (The Sheik and 4 Horsemen), did well and re-launched him. The SOTS he didn't want to do but he need the money and needed a big hit...his planned next film would have been another "swashbuckler," a cleaned up story about Cellini. Then, after he died, it was resurrected with Frederic March and it was sort of OK but you could see Rudy in a film like that with a lot more spirit in the role. However, the silent swashbucklers were fading and Fairbanks retired after his last silent, The Iron Mask. However, in the early 50's his son NARRATED the story as well as reading the inter titles with a great score and it was fantastic! I wish we could see some of RV's films narrated with music like that was done!
@@secretariatgirl4249 Your quote "the supposedly 'artistic' things which basically bombed." I wish you had put "supposedly" in capital letters. That great Art can be downright Macho seems to be a well-hidden secret. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were written 3,000 years ago. These Ancient Greek epic poems are only for forced reading in college, to some. However, Homer is one of my favorite writers- the closest to Shakespeare in Nailing down human nature. When sharing the Iliad (BOOK) translated by Fagles, all that extreme explicitness of how men died in battle before the walls of Troy- it was almost too much for him( while he Loves The Terminator, Brave heart, etc.). He told me three-fourths of the way through, "If I can get through this, I can get through anything."
Men were threatened, especially the older ones set in their ways. Younger men would emulate the style. However, there was an anti-foreigner element for sure...racism abounded, just like today. They actually did HANG Italians...that was just a few years before in the early 1900's. Any immigrants who were from the southern parts of Europe, dark, were considered Negro. I'm not kidding. I remember when I was growing up the term "wop" was used all the time...and I know that it was applied to Rudy at the time! My mother, who trained as an opera singer and did recitals was turned away by a club in my hometown...it was a WASP town, founded by the Dutch...and this was the 1940's!!
What a man❤
Fabulous
If i had thought Rudy had found true love in this life, i don't think i would be as obsessed with him. I might like him, but in a more detached way. But, since i feel Rudy didn't find or choose the right women, it has made me more interested in him.
He could put makeup on me anytime.
That was cool. Thanks!
You are welcome!
I think Melford was responsible for the overacting by both Ayers and Valentino. Rudy seems to have caught on halfway through the movie and cut it out. Further, he never did it in any other film, not even "Four Horsemen..." which was before "The Sheik".
Love that man
I think so too.
Eva thanks. ;)
Excellent, "making of" pieces are such assets that offer us a glimpse into the artwork of film making. I love your music selections...what is the piece at :48? I know it as the Nureyev solo from Swan Lake, only it was played slower for the ballet.
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!❤
I don't know much about Agnes, and i'm not sure i would want to see them together since i am so obsessed with Rudy now. lol. But, I'm not a fan of Natacha. I am jealous of her because i know Rudy had feelings for her. But, Natacha seemed to want complete freedom and control which is not suited to family life which is what Rudy wanted. Maybe they would make good friends, but not lovers.
I think Rex Ingram was worse though. Rudy and Rex didn't get along either. But, George Melford directed Rudy in Moran of the Lady Letty also.
Rex Ingram was married to Alice Terry at the time. But, Terry and Rudy had already known each other before. Rudy didn't like Rex's direction, and they would argue. Rudy wanted better scenes. Rudy acted with Terry in Four Horsemen and Conquering Power.
He fascinates me too just a bit.
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Yes ;)
Thank you. Yes, it is Op. 20 Act I No. 4 Pas de trois. ;)
You're welcom. :)
How neat. :)
What a fine looking man !
No, not yet. I don't really have enough to make a video.
I assumed with Valentino's overacting in The Sheik it was either the fault of the director or Rudy found the source material silly and just decided to have fun with it.
nitrateglow It could have been both, but it's been said that the director did it and Valentino had a problem with it.
I think Director told them to act like that..other silent films they do too .......
No. That would be interesting to see though.
@RomanticMaiden Haha!!! It's nice to know that you feel i am a threat to you. I am very flattered. :)) You can have Rudy, but I challenge you to a duel anyway. Wait, it's no challenge my friend because you already lost!!! ;)) Pleasant dreams.
Me encantaría ver ésta película en España
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I think Agnes was married, but still, how could she not get turned on. Rudy is so dam sexy and fine. I can barely stand it sometimes.
@PlayIt4MeAgainSam Thanks hun. ;)
Haha! I wonder that myself. ;)
I'm like you. I would like to be Rudy's lucky woman. But, i doubt that would ever happen.
The Same Here!❤
@msrudyfan That's why i don't really like Ingram and Terry. I do like the Four Horsemen, but just because of Rudy. That's all.
He died so young
Ah, for the good old days, when "Sheik's were admired as
mysterious & adventurous & not dictatorial, oil billionaires!
Excuse me correction:of the horses.
@RomanticMaiden Your English is fine. Yes, i would like to be that close to Rudy. ;)
@valentinolover70 Np. ;)
@RomanticMaiden Are you still here? Do i still bug you and make you angry? I wonder why. Lol. ;)) You are very competitive with me even after i let you have Rudy!!! Well, what can i say. byeeeee ;))) Take care sweetie. ;)
Valentino demanded authentic overpriced costumes for such film quality. Foolish. No wonder people started turning on him.